ArticleEcoHealth2020
Eating Bushmeat Improves Food Security in a Biodiversity and Infectious Disease "Hotspot".
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- Predictors of Frequency and Success of Wild Meat Hunting Trips and Carcass Prices in an African Biodiversity Hotspot.Human ecology: an interdisciplinary journal · 2025Article
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- An experimental game to assess hunter's participation in zoonotic diseases surveillance.BMC public health · 2024Article
- A systematic mapping review of links between handling wild meat and zoonotic diseases.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Article
- Natural History of Nonhuman Primates After Oral Exposure to Ebola Virus Variant Makona.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Mapping Global Bushmeat Activities to Improve Zoonotic Spillover Surveillance by Using Geospatial Modeling.Emerging infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Consumers' purchase intention of wild freshwater fish during the COVID-19 pandemic.Agribusiness (New York, N.Y.) · 2022Article
- Wildmeat consumption and child health in Amazonia.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- A tool for rapid assessment of wildlife markets in the Asia-Pacific Region for risk of future zoonotic disease outbreaks.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2021Article
- Bushmeat, wet markets, and the risks of pandemics: Exploring the nexus through systematic review of scientific disclosures.Environmental science & policy · 2021Review
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Abstract
Hunting and consumption of wild animals, colloquially known as "bushmeat," is associated with health trade-offs. Contact with wildlife increases exposure to wildlife-origin zoonotic diseases yet bushmeat is an important nutritional resource in many rural communities. In this study, we test the hypothesis that bushmeat improves food security in communities that hunt and trade bushmeat regularly. We conducted 478 interviews with men and women in six communities near Cross River National Park in Nigeria. We used interview responses to relate prevalence and diversity of bushmeat consumption to household food security status. Animal-based foods were the most commonly obtained items from the forest, and 48 types of wild vertebrate animals were consumed within the past 30 days. Seventy-five percent of households experienced some degree of food insecurity related to food access. Bushmeat consumption was significantly associated with relatively higher household food security status. Rodents were more important predictors of food security than other animal taxa. Despite increased bushmeat consumption in food-secure households, food-insecure households consumed a higher diversity of bushmeat species. Results show that consumption of bushmeat, especially rodents, is uniquely related to improved food security. Reliance on a wider diversity of species in food-insecure households may in turn affect their nutrition, exposures to reservoirs of zoonotic infections, and impact on wildlife conservation. Our results indicate that food security should be addressed in conservation and public health strategies aimed at reducing human-wildlife contact, and that improved wildlife protection, when combined with alternative animal-based foods, would positively affect food security in the long term.
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